Your a bit slow over there in Europe we signed a currency deal only a few weeks ago with China and now Brazil ?
The chinese need it to help with payments of all the ore they buy from both country's.
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If we are gong to have extended interviews and selection panels, we need some beer money from somewhere. All due diligent deliberations take a certain amount of time if we are going to uphold democracy in a 21C Republic. I'm sure that when a new Secretary to the Treasury is appointed, that will be appropriately taken care of in the accounts as "suitable refreshments".

The newly Independent Republic of the Isle of Wight, is pleased to announce the following appointments.

Cabinet Secretary - Chris S

Chancellor - Nick

Minister for Immigration - Sirius B

Harbour Master - Bernie

Further such appointments will be announced in due course.

It is proposed that the County Town of Newport be upgraded to the Capital city, and a suitable manifesto will be published in time for 2015. In the meantime applications are invited for the post of Chief Executive. Submissions on the back of a £50 note should be submitted in triplicate to the Committee, c/o the Dairyman's Daughter Free House.

Hon Sec

...do like the crest. By the way Bernie, being Harbour Master will put you in
charge of "Imports & Exports"

City of Newport....will we have to build a Cathedral there then...may be not?
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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

"Inflation expectations in the euro area continue to be firmly anchored," he said.
Anchored by what?...This geaser's a ruddy fool, high interest rates anchor
inflation not low one's like 0.5%. If you've got low inflation then under these
conditions it's because the economy has become deflationary due to people not
spending so prices fall.

"The cut in interest rates should contribute to support a recovery later in the year."
If you truly saw recovery occurring later in the year then you'd have kept your
interest rate set at 0.75% to off-set the expected early rise in inflation.
The fact is, Draghi, you do not see events improving at all.

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

As I have stated in theses threads previously Obama would dearly like the UK to
stay with the EU. For the US government can gain a certain amount of policy
influence/direction through the back door via it's close connections with the UK.
Fully understandable as this wish to have some influence on the direction of the
EU will be severely hampered if the UK leaves. It's possible that Cameron's
dithering over the saga of our EU membership may be down to a certain amount of
pressure coming from America for us to stay in hence protect their interests to
a certain degree. How much pressure?...don't know, yet is Obama resided now to
the fact that his influence over the mater of the UK staying in is now not
going to be sufficient to stop a vote on our continuing membership of the EU.

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

Actually there was a 60% turnout, so 1/3 of the country voted Obama, 1/3 voted Romney, and 1/3 didn't vote at all. The Electoral Collage decided who won. When we had the same results in the UK in 2010 we had a hung parliament, and ended up with a Coalition. These are some of the reasons why the two countries are unhappy with their governments, because only half of those that voted wanted the winner. It's very difficult to run a country when 2/3 of the population didn't vote for the government or couldn't be bothered to vote at all.